I’m at Mix11 all week and this past Monday, I attended the Open Source Fest where multiple tables were set up for open source project owners to show off their projects.

One of  my favorite projects is also a NuGet package named Glimpse Web Debugger. It adds a FireBug like experience for grabbing server-side diagnostics from an ASP.NET MVC application while looking at it in your browser. It provides a browser plug-in like experience without the plug-in.

One of the features of their plug-in is a route debugger inspired by my route debugger. Over time, as Glimpse catches on, I’ll probably be able to simply retire mine.

But in the meanwhile, inspired by their route debugger, I’ve updated my route debugger so that it acts like tracing and puts the debug information at the bottom of the page (click to enlarge).

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Note that this new feature requires that you’re running against .NET 4 and that you have the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure assembly available (which you would in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application).

The RouteDebugger NuGet package includes the older version of RouteDebug.dll for those still running against .NET 3.5.

This takes advantage of a new feature included in the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure assembly that allows you to register an HttpModule dynamically. That allows me to easily append this route debug information to the end of every request.

By the way, RouteDebugger is now part of the RouteMagic project if you want to see the source code.

To try it out, Install-Package RouteDebugger.